Pirate Party leader Rickard Falkvinge told the BBC, "The establishment is trying to prevent control of knowledge and culture slipping from their grasp. When the Pirate Bay got hit, people realised the wolf was outside the front door. That happened one month before the ballot opened, so it had quite a rallying effect."

Considering the Pirate Party's youth-based following, could this be the beginning of a eyepatch-friendly European government where media flows like water and peg legs reign supreme?! Oh, Sweden.